What can you treat with EFT? What can't you treat?

Sections of this page
when will you seek help
prerequisites
short list of issue grouped by indication
comprehensive list

When will you seek help?
There are many reasons why people seek professional help to resolve health issues of mental health issues. What really weighs is if an isssue impairs your ability to function in different areas of life. You may experience limitations in you ability to exist en survive every day life, work or have fun. Issues that prevent you from working tend to have priority.  What one persons experience as an issue will not bother the next.

Prerequisites, terms and conditions.
Research by Gendlin (known from Focusing) has shown that the people who make the greatest gain in therapy are those people who can reflect and tell you how their issue has effected them, how it touched them, how it feels to them in their body. This body awareness is referred to as a felt sense.

Basic requirements for EFT, as an intervention technique or stand alone form of therapy, are the ability to feel and willingness to feel, as well as accepting the responsibility for you life and your issues. Medication that influences (decreases) the ability to feel feelings and emotions (antidepressants, antipsychotic medication, anti-anxiety drugs, sleep medication, and especailly combinations) will slow the speed of the EFT process.  This also indicates that people with dissociate disorders will have a hard time getting EFT to work without first addressing the dissociation. An example: Can you feel what fear of heights feels like in your body? Imagine yourself in a situation where you would experience a fear of heights like a ladder, bridge, bunjee-jumping or parachute jumping. 

The feeling requirement applies to the following list of issues which have been treated by Energy Psychology intervention techniques like EFT regularly. 

Which issues can be treated. 
The following short list of issues, mainly derived from Andrade  en Feinstein, 2004. (pdf), and adapted according to therapist experience, is ordered from easy-to-treat-and-EFT-works-extremely-well-with-this-issue to hard-to-treat-dont-attempt-to-use-EFT for this. At the bottom of the page a more comprehensive list. 

Easy/Well:
Anxiety disorders: panic disorders with and without agoraphobia, agoraphobia without history of panic disorder, specific phobias (claustrophobia, driving phobia, fear of flying, emetophobia), social phobias, separation anxiety disorders, and mixed anxiety-depressive disorders.

Trauma: painfull memories, loss, (unresolved) grief, accidents, (sexual) abuse, acute stress disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders,

Physical issues: (Tension) headache, Cluster Headache, Migraine, backpain, irritatable bowel syndrome (IBS) shoulder pain (frozen shoulder), tennis elbow, stomach ache, etc.

Mood disorders: depression, burn out.

Neurological disorders: Dyslexia, dyscalculus, epilepsy.

Emotional problems, including fear, guilt, anger, shame, jealousy, rejection, painful memories, loneliness, frustration, love pain, and procrastination. Adjustment disorders, attention deficit disorders, elimination disorders, impulse control disorders, and problems related to abuse or neglect.

A bit harder - but EFT still outperfomes othera interventions.
Obsessive compulsive disorders, tillomania,  tic disorders, generalized anxiety disorders, anxiety disorders due to general medical conditions, fear of blushing (erythrophobia),  phobia of loud noises, tinnitus, hyperacusis, nail biting, learning disorders, communication disorders, feeding and eating disorders of early childhood, selective mutism, reactive detachment disorders of infancy or early childhood, somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, sexual dysfunction, sleep disorders, and relational problems. 

Neutral - EFT results similar to other methods 
learning skills disorders, motor skills disorders, and Tourette’s syndrome. Also in this category were substance abuse-related disorders, substance-induced anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. For these conditions, a number of treatment approaches can be effectively combined to draw upon the strengths of each. Require substantial knowledge of these issues/disorders.

The following require extensive knowledge of these issues/disorders and extensive knowledge of Energy Psychology to be able to apply Energy Psychology methods to them effectively: 
Please beware that treating in the wrong order or without specialized knowlegde may aggrevate these conditions.  Some forms of major endogenous depression, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, and dissociative disorders, psychotic disorders, chronic fatigue and Multiple Sclerosis.

Not usefull, use something else:
Delirium, dementia, mental retardation.